At the beginning of the novel, the highly respected Middle White Boar – old Major – presents the animals with a speech, which is intended to plant within the animals his vision of a liberal future for all animals. The essence of Old Majors speech is that ‘...The life of an animal is misery and slavery...’ He is telling them of the reality of their existence - that they are merely slaves for mankind. Old Major explains to the animals that man is the reason why they are forced to persist in such appalling conditions of starvation, over-work and murder. Old Major passes on the wisdom that, to the animals, ‘...Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for ever...’. Old Major tells the animals that, in order to achieve the goal of freedom from Man, they must rebel against the human race. ‘...Work day and night, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades...’

2.How are Snowball and Napoleon already differentiated in character and temperament?

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